They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

Theoretically, it’s impossible for us to perceive a 4D creature. That is, unless it broke into our three-dimensional reality.

Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet’s ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital data, researchers identified an ...

Biomaterials are taking medicine by storm – explore some recent preclinical advances in the field that may yield therapeutic benefits.

Materials that encourage mineralization, mimicking the process in the human body, are becoming increasingly important in medicine and technology. This process, which occurs at the interface between ...

Making computer chips smaller is not just about better design. It also depends on a critical step in manufacturing called patterning, where nanoscale structures are carved into materials to form the ...

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome separation during cell division. By studying related yeast species, ...

Europe's strengths across multiple dimensions have resulted in creating successful initiatives in quantum technologies. Will this translate into commercial leadership ?

A soft-matter photonic platform uses a dye-doped liquid crystal droplet to switch light with light alone. By sending a precisely timed red-shifted pulse into a self-assembled optical cavity before ...